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    AZERI PUNDIT BLAMES GEORGIAN LEADER FOR RED CARPET TREATMENT TO ARMENIAN HEAD
    by R. Manafli Ekho

    Ekho
    Oct 3 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Georgia cannot decide

    Said Azerbaijani pundit in a comment on the visit of Armenian President
    Serzh Sargsyan to Tbilisi from the Azerbaijani standpoint

    "Russian jets took off from the Armenian territories to bomb Georgia
    and Mikheil Saakashvili pretends he does not know this and renders
    homage to Serzh Sargsyan upon receiving him," Mubariz Ahmadoglu,
    prominent local pundit and director of the Centre for Political
    Innovations and Technologies, made this statement in a conversation
    with Ekho newspaper, while summing up the results of Armenian President
    Serzh Sargsyan's visit to Georgia from an Azerbaijani standpoint.

    We should say that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan paid a two-day
    working visit to Tbilisi on 30 September - 1 October. Within the
    framework of the visit, the Armenian president had a tete-a-tete
    conversation with his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili
    where they discussed bilateral relations as well as issues related
    to the regional security. At a joint briefing after the meeting,
    the presidents said that they took a decision to set up a joint
    consortium of the two countries for the construction of a new road
    to the Black Sea coast through Ajaria.

    [Passage omitted: Georgia and Armenia decide to build a new road up
    to the Black Sea coast of Georgia]

    Azerbaijan is surprised at the "high-level Georgian-Armenian
    relations", which was highlighted at the meeting of the two presidents,
    in particular, after Armenia supported Russia's military aggression
    against Georgia. Anyway, as political expert Mubariz Ahmadoglu told
    Ekho, Russian jets took off from the Armenian territories to bomb
    Georgia and Mikheil Saakashvili pretends that he does not know this
    and renders homage to Serzh Sargsyan upon receiving him.

    Against this background, Saakashvili's gratitude to Sargsyan that
    Armenia backed Georgia's territorial integrity seems ridiculous,
    the director of the CPIT said. "How can one speak about the support
    for Georgia's territorial integrity by Armenia when immediately after
    recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, they
    began to speak about recognizing of unrecognized separatist bodies
    in exchange for the recognition of Nagornyy Karabakh's independence
    by Russia?" asked Mubariz Ahmadoglu.

    In his opinion, the reason for tension in our region is namely
    connected with the fact that countries turn a blind eye to such
    behaviour of neighbouring states. "Georgia so far cannot decide on
    what position to take for the resolution of major regional problems,"
    the pundit said, adding that Saakashvili did not only award Sargsyan
    a state order, but at the same time, he saw him off to Yerevan,
    although when French President Nicholas Sarkozy arrived [in Tbilisi],
    he did not even think of doing so.

    Commenting on the decision of the Georgian and Armenian presidents
    on the construction of the road, the Azerbaijani pundit said that
    Georgia helps Armenia to put an ancient Armenian dream of "from sea
    to a sea" into action. "You know, by building this road, Armenia will
    get a direct access to the Black Sea coast," said Ahmadoglu. To recap,
    the head of the CPIT said that Georgia's current policy with regard
    to Armenia shows that Mikheil Saakashvili has bad advisers.

    However, people adhere to this opinion not only in Azerbaijan but
    also in Georgia itself. As a member of the board of the Azerbaijani
    community in Georgia, [former MP] Zumrud Qurbanov, told Ekho, many
    ethnic Azerbaijanis in Georgia are surprised at the level of reception
    of the Armenian president in Tbilisi. "We are indignant at this. Do
    politicians not know that South Ossetia and Abkhazia have in fact
    become independent states owing to Armenia?" asked Qurbanov.

    At the same time, he pointed out that Georgians also do not always
    understand this, who quite often consider Armenians reliable and loyal
    neighbours. "Although our attitude towards Armenians is different
    due to known reasons, the Georgians see no reason for this," recapped
    our compatriot.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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